NUMERICAL METHODS/PDE'S

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDEs

Prerequisites: (APMA E4300) and (APMA E3102) or (APMA E4200) or or equivalents.
Numerical solution of differential equations, in particular partial differential equations arising in various fields of application. Presentation emphasizes finite difference approaches to present theory on stability, accuracy, and convergence with minimal coverage of alternate approaches (left for other courses). Method coverage includes explicit and implicit time-stepping methods, direct and iterative solvers for boundary-value problems.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

CARBON STORAGE

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Klaus Lackner
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

2ND WAVE & JEWISH WOMEN'S ART

JEWSH WMN ARTSTC RESP 1939-90

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 13 students.
A study of  Jewish women’s fiction, memoirs, art and film in response to the feminist/gender issues raised by the Second Wave. The seminar includes analysis of the writings and artwork of Jo Sinclair, Tillie Olsen, Judy Chicago, Helene Aylon, Elana Dykewomon, Rebecca Goldstein, E.M. Broner and others.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Klepfisz
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites:
BIOL W4300
or the instructor's permission.
A weekly seminar and discussion course focusing on the most recent development in biotechnology. Professionals of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related industries will be invited to present and lead discussions.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CO2 UTILIZATION AND CONVERSION

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
  Info
• 3 points

VIROLOGY

Intense laboratory exercise where students meet 4 days a week for eight weeks in the summer term participating in experimental design, bench work, and data analysis. Grades depend on participation in the laboratory, reports, and practical exams. Class starts immediately following Spring final exams. Open to MA and Postbac Biotechnology students. This course is offered in the summer. Students from other schools or programs may enroll if space is available.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM

“…Romanticism is the largest recent movement to transform the lives and the thought of the Western world. It seems to me to be the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred, and all the other shifts which have occurred in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries appear to me in comparison less important, and at any rate deeply influenced by it.” (Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism) , This seminar will introduce students to the manifold expressions of Romanticism in Europe from the late eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century. It is geared both at History majors, particularly but not exclusively those specializing in European Intellectual History, and at students interested in the literature and culture of Germany, France, and Great Britain. We will also  take a  brief look at Romantic writers in Eastern Europe. We will read primarily works written by philosophers and social thinkers, but also a good deal of literature, both prose and poetry. We will have two sessions devoted to the plastic arts – including a class trip to the Metropolitan Museum to view paintings and sculptures, and we will have one session devoted to Romantic music (a study of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.)  We will include readings relating to the Romantic fascination with “the East,” and devote one session to the crucial subject of Romanticism and gender.  Most of the readings will be primary sources either originally in or translated into English, as well as a selection of pertinent secondary sources.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael F Stanislawski
  CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

EAR-TRAINING VI

Advanced dictation, sight singing, and musicianship, with emphasis on 20th-century music.

• Department: Music
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 1 points

MARGNLIZTION IN MEDICINE

There is a significant correlation between race and health in the United States.  People of color and those from underserved populations have higher mortality rates and a greater burden of chronic disease than their white counterparts.  Differences in health outcomes have been attributed to biological factors as race has been naturalized.  In this class we will explore the history of the idea of “race” in the context of changing biomedical knowledge formations.  We will then focus on the impact that social determinants like poverty, structural violence, racism and geography have on health.  Ultimately, this course will address the social implications of race on health both within the classroom and beyond. In addition to the seminar, there will also be a significant service component. Students will be expected to volunteer at a community organization for a minimum of 3 hours a week. This volunteer work will open an avenue for students to go beyond the walls of their classrooms while learning from and positively impacting their community.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rishi K Goyal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

HUM NATURE:DNA,RACE & IDENTITY

The course focuses on human identity, beginning with the individual and progressing to communal and global viewpoints using a framework of perspectives from biology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, religion and the law.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruben Gonzalez
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) or instructor's permission.
Complex reactive systems. Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in solution.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI LITERATURE

CHTENIIA PO RUSS:Voina i mir

The course is devoted to reading and discussing of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Classes are conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN ADAPTATION

Prerequisites:
EEEB W1010
Human Species or
ANTH V1007
Origins of Human Society or the instructor's permission.
This course explores human adaptation from a biological, ecological and evolutionary perspective. From our earliest hominin ancestors in Africa to our own species' subsequent dispersal throughout the world, our lineage has encountered innumerable environmental pressures. Using morphological, physiological and behavioral/cultural evidence, we will examine the responses to these pressures that helped shape our unique lineage and allowed it to adapt to a diverse array of environments.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jessica M Manser
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina M Denischenko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

CINEMA OF SUBVERSION

Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas and Spanish-born Octavio Getino postulated an alternative cinema that would spur spectators to political action. In this course we will ask the question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? We will study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. In addition, we will look at how some filmmakers respond to institutional oppression, such as poverty and corruption, even within so-called “free” societies. The focus is on contemporary filmmakers but will also include earlier classics of world cinema to provide historical perspective. The course will discuss these topics, among others: What is authoritarianism, what is totalitarianism, and what are the tools of repression within authoritarian/totalitarian societies? What is Third Cinema, and how does it represent and challenge authoritarianism? How does film navigate the opposition of censorship, propaganda and truth? How do filmmakers respond to repressive laws concerning gender and sexual orientation? How do they deal with violence and trauma? How are memories of repressive regimes reflected in the psyche of modern cinema? And finally, what do we learn about authority, artistic vision, and about ourselves when we watch these films?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

YIDDISH CLASSICS AND MODERNITY

This course focuses on the fiction of three writers--Sh.Y. Abramovitch (also known as Mendele Moykher Sforim, the “grandfather” of Yiddish literature), Sholem Aleichem, and Y.L. Peretz. Their short stories and novels are considered the classics of modern Yiddish literature and offer a provocative introduction to the Eastern European Jewish in which they wrote and the historical, political, social and economic transformations of the late 19
th
-early 20
th
 century. 
Knowledge of Yiddish is not required for this course.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anita Norich
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• 3 points

AFR AM PROPHETIC POL TRADITION

Through a wide range of readings and classroom discussions, this course will introduce students to the crucial role that the unique African-American appropriation of the Judeo-Christian prophetic biblical tradition has played -- and continues to play -- in the lives of black people in America.

• Department: Religion
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Obery Hendricks
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WAR,GENOCIDE,& AFTERMATH COMP PERSPECTIV

WAR, GENOCIDE, AND AFTERMATH

This 4000-level course examines how societies grapple with the legacy of mass violence, through an exploration of historical texts, memoirs, textbooks, litigation, and media reports and debates on confronting the past. Focusing on case studies of the Herero Genocide, the Armenian genocide during WWI, and the Holocaust and the Comfort Women during WWII, students investigate the crime and its sequelae, looking at how societies deal with skeletons in their closets ( engaging in silence, trivialization, rationalization, and denial to acknowledgment, apology, and repair); surveying responses of survivors and their descendants (with particular attention to intergeneration transmission of trauma, forgiveness, resentment, and the pursuit of redress); and dissecting public debates on modern day issues that harken back to past atrocities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF TONAL MUSIC

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3321
or the equivalent.
Fulfills the requirement of the 3000-level advanced theory elective. This course was previously offered as V3360, Pre-Tonal and Tonal Analysis. Detailed analysis of selected tonal compositions. This course, for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, is intended to develop understanding of tonal compositions and of theoretical concepts that apply to them, through study of specific works in various forms and styles.

• Department: Music
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

WORLD OF THE FIRST CRUSADE

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
An examination of a series of episodes that are of special consequence for papal history in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Readings in both primary and secondary sources in English translation.

• Department: Religion
• F 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Somerville
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC AND MADNESS

Prerequisites: None.
This undergraduate seminar offers historical and critical perspectives on music as a cause, symptom, and treatment of madness. We will begin by analyzing the stakes of studying the history of music and madness in light of methodologies from history, ethnography, and disability studies. We will then apply these frameworks to an investigation of selected topics in the histories of music and madness, as well as more recent ethnographies of the role of music in conjunction with altered mental states. In doing so, we will examine the interplay of embodied experience with respect to composed and improvised music as well as the soundscapes of religious rituals and trance states. The course is intended to foster interdisciplinary engagement between students interested in music, history, and medicine, and to provide them with critical tools to examine constructions of music and madness in social, scientific, and historical contexts. No musical background is necessary to participate.

• Department: Music
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carmel A Raz
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• 3 points

ADVANCED PRINTMAKING

Prerequisites:
VIAR R2420
, or
VIAR R2430
.
(Formerly R3415) Designed for students who have already taken one semester of a printmaking course and are interested in continuing on an upper level. Students are encouraged to work in all areas, separate or combined, using their own vocabulary and imagery to create a body of work by the end of the semester. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Valerie Hammond
  Info
• 3 points

THE SIXTIES IN THE ARCHIVE

This course explores the multifaceted history of the 1960s, connecting political, cultural, and social movements, and examining the legacies of this crucial decade from the vantage point of half a century. Working with Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library the class will emphasize archival collections and independent research. Students will develop advanced research skills and work independently to complete a digital exhibition highlighting their archival discoveries.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Thai S Jones
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

REGIONL CLIM & CLIMATE IMPACTS

Prerequisites:
EESC W4400
and
EESC W4401
.
The dynamics of environment and society interact with climate and can be modified through use of modern climate information. To arrive at the best use of climate information, there is a need to see climate in a balanced way, among the myriad of factors at play. Equally, there is a need to appreciate the range of climate information available and to grasp its underlying basis and the reasons for varying levels of certainty. Many decisions in society are at more local scales, and regional climate information considered at appropriate scales and in appropriate forms (e.g., transformed into vegetation stress) is key. Students will build a sufficient understanding of the science behind the information, and analyze examples of how the information can and is being used. This course will prepare the ground for a holistic understanding needed for wise use of climate information.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

VICTORIAN POETRY

(Lecture). This course examines the works of the major English poets of the period 1830-1900. We will pay special attention to Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, and their great poetic innovation, the dramatic monologue. We will also be concentrating on poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and Thomas Hardy.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 3 points

PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

Prerequisites: (SIEO W3600) and (IEOR E3608) and computer programming.

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in IE and OR.
 Job shop scheduling: parallel machines, machines in series; arbitrary job shops. Algorithms, complexity, and worst-case analysis. Effects of randomness: machine breakdowns, random processing time. Term project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

INSURGENCIES/CONFLICTS-SE ASIA

INSURGENCIES/CONFLICTS SE ASIA

A number of countries in Southeast Asia have recently faced violent conflicts, often linked to separatist or regionalist demands from territorially concentrated ethnic or religious minorities. This course examines a range of conflicts in Southern Thailand (Patani), Southern Philippines (Mindanao), Indonesia (notably Aceh) and Burma, through a variety of different lenses and comparative perspectives. These include security and (counter)insurgency perspectives, the comparative character of militant movements, perspectives based on minority rights and identity politics, explorations of the salience of religion, studies of language politics, questions of autonomy and decentralization, and the issue of peace negotiations and dialogue processes. These themes and issues have a broader relevance to wider debates in comparative politics, which students will be encouraged to explore in their papers.

• Department: Political Science
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan McCargo
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

POLITICS IN CONTEMP CHINA

This course focuses on the evolution of Chinese politics since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949. It introduces and discusses the relationship between the two “three decades” (the three decades under Mao and the three decades of “reform and opening up”). More specifically, the course aims to (1) clarify some important historical facts, (2) analyze the ideological consideration of the “official” history sanctioned by the CCP and its epistemological impact, (3) make a comparison between official view and that of independent scholars about the history; (4) try to respond to some urgent problems faced by contemporary China, and (5) provide suggestions and principles for the reconstruction of the historiography of contemporary China. Students will learn how to understand the recent development Chinese politics, how to analyze the complex contemporary history and reality of China, and how to approach issues about China from a systematic perspective.

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Boshu Zhang
  Info
• 4 points

APPLICATIONS IN CLIMATE & SOC

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• M 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIN OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE

ULTRASOUND IN DIAGNOSTC IMAGNG

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1202) or MATH V1202 or equivalent,
Fourier analysis. Physics of diagnostic ultrasound and principles of ultrasound imaging instrumentation. Propagation of plane waves in lossless medium; ultrasound propagation through biological tissues; single-element and array transducer design; pulse-echo and Doppler ultrasound instrumentation, performance evaluation of ultrasound imaging systems using tissue-mimicking phantoms, ultrasound tissue characterization; ultrasound nonlinearity and bubble activity; harmonic imaging; acoustic output of ultrasound systems; biological effects of ultrasound.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• 3 points

RELIGION,MIND&SCIENCE; FICTION

While not yet fully recognized as a literary or philosophical genre, science fiction, through the “dislocation” it operates, raises (or amplifies) questions that have long been the preserve of religion, metaphysics, or philosophy, and it has brought some of these questions into the realm of popular culture. Science fiction is often perceived as hostile to religion, yet it often blurs the boundaries between science and religion. Recent SF, unlike the traditional “space opera,” revolves around the relations between the human mind and Artificial Intelligence — a challenge that our fast-evolving technoscientific society is confronting with a new sense of urgency. This course examines overlapping issues and questions shared by religion and SF.

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Ho
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

ELOQUENT ANIMALS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Medieval literature, like contemporary literature, sometimes features talking animals. But medieval grammatical treatises describe non-human animal utterances as meaningless and (usually) as untranscribable in writing. Some human utterances also fall into this category—a fact that grammatical treatises acknowledge—, rendering language alone an inadequate means of shoring up the species boundary. When authors liken their own language to that of a non-human animal, such as the myriad medieval poets who profess to “sing like the birds,” is this a serious claim, leading to experimental poetics? When non-human animals “speak” in medieval fiction, do they speak differently from their human counterparts? This seminar surveys texts in which animals communicate—via language or via other symbolic systems. How, if at all, did medieval authors attempt to draw the line between human and non-human animals? Our reading will include lyric poetry by the troubadours and 
trouvères,
 Chrétien de Troyes’ 
Yvain,
 
Philomena
, selected fables (both anonymous and by Marie de France), the 
Novas del papagai 
(
The Story of the Parrot
), the 
Roman de Renart, 
and Gaston Phébus's 
Le livre de chasse. 
Alongside these texts, we will read theoretical reflections on language and sound, both medieval and modern, including medieval catalogs of animal “noises” and grammatical treatises on voice. Contemporary reflections by Derrida, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Mladen Dolar and others. Reading knowledge of modern French highly recommended.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eliza Zingesser
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

EUROPEAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

EUROPEAN POLITICL DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: Course in European history or political science or relevant comparative politics courses.
This is an upper-level course in European political development. It is designed for undergraduates who already have some exposure to European history and politics and graduate students. The course will analyze important theoretical works, and debates about, the evolution of European political systems and institutions since the early modern period and place the European experience in comparative perspective

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

ETH POL ACROS POST-SOV EURASIA

Various forms of ethnic politics have characterized politics in many states throughout Eurasia since 1991, from nationalist separatism to violent conflict to political competition among ethnic minorities and majorities. This course is designed to encourage students to think deeply about the relationship between ethnicity and politics. We will consider several questions. First, why does ethnicity become politicized? We investigate this question by examining nationalist secessionism and ethnic conflict—phenomena that mushroomed at the end of the Cold War. We will focus on East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, devoting special attention to the cases of Yugoslavia, the USSR, Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Chechnya. However, we will also study cases in which the dog didn’t bark, i.e. places where nationalist mobilization and ethnic violence either did not occur, or emerged and then receded as in the ethnic republics of the Russian Federation (including the “Muslim” regions of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, etc.). In the second part of the course, we will analyze ethnic politics after independent statehood was achieved throughout the post-Soviet space. How do nationalist state-builders try to construct a nation and a state at the same time? Have they incorporated or discriminated against minorities living within “their” states? How have ethnic minorities responded? We will study Ukraine, the Baltics and Kazakhstan where ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking populations form large portions of the population, devoting particular attention to the crisis in Ukraine. We will also examine how the post-conflict regions of Bosnia and Kosovo have dealt with ethnic pluralism. These cases allow us to gain greater understanding of how multi-ethnic states use forms of federalism, consociationalism, and power-sharing as state-building strategies.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

PRACTICAL STYLISTICS-RUSS LANG

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CONFLICTS IN ISRAELI POLITICS

Prerequisites: INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION REQUIRED
Conflicts, cleavages and contentiousness are a common feature of a democratic system of government in general. In this respect Israel is no exception. Apart from being the Start Up
Nation and the Holy Land, in the minds of many around the world Israel is associated with
conflict. Indeed, both internally and externally, Israeli politics is suffused with conflict and
continuously has to live up to the challenge of preserving democracy in the presence of conflict.
The achievements of Israel in the political, economic, international and social arenas were
facilitated by the emergence of a pattern of politics, indeed, a political culture, that puts a strong emphasis on the pursuit of political accommodation among social groupings, political parties and
ideological strands even at the expense of compromising their respective manifest interests,
aspirations and programs. Moreover, the mobilization capabilities of Israel's governments have
been remarkable by any standard. They were capable of inducing the citizens to accept willingly
such burdens as high taxation, harsh economic measures and long conscript and reserve military
service. Israel has done all these without loss of public support for its central political and social
institutions.
This class will focus on conflicts, external and internal. We will examine social, economic and
political cleavages within the state of Israel. We will study the Arab-Israeli conflict and in
particular the interaction of Israel with the Palestinians over the years. Finally, we will examine
broader circles in which Israeli foreign policy applies and in particular in the context of US-Israel
relations and in regional conflicts in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the Iran Deal.

• Department: Political Science
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Ehud N Sommer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC & BOLLYWOOD

In what ways does the visual and musical archive of Hindi film--commonly referred to as “Bollywood”--reflect and constitute social life in South Asia and beyond? This course takes this broad question as its starting point as we consider relationships between the popular cinema of Bombay (Mumbai) and South Asian history, culture, and politics. A study of Hindi film music will serve as a foundation for discussions on the nature of popular culture and how we can fruitfully study it in an academic context, as we consider debates regarding popular culture’s role in society. Is popular culture only reflective of commercial interests? Or does it play an instrumental function in driving political and social change? A further focus of this course will be to consider various methods of analyzing musical media. We will study approaches that music and film scholars use to analyze music’s role in cinematic narratives, and use these discussions to make our own critique of how music is used in Hindi cinema production.

• Department: Music
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Eben Graves
  Info
• 3 points

POL & JUSTICE-SOUTHEAST ASIA

The course starts from the premise that questions of justice are essentially political, and their study cannot be safely left in the sole hands of lawyers and legal experts. In recent years, a number of important global trends have become evident in the study of justice. These include a growing focus on transitional justice – especially how the transition from an authoritarian regime, or from conditions of violent conflict, may best be handled. Another important trend is the so-called ‘new constitutionalism’ – efforts to strengthen checks and balances through establishing new institutions such as constitutional courts. A third trend concerns disturbing developments in the use of the criminal justice system for essentially political purposes. This course will explore how these recent trends are being played out in various parts of Southeast Asia.

• Department: Political Science
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan McCargo
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DOMESTIC RUSSIAN POLITICS SINCE THE COLL

Over the last twenty-five years, Russia has transformed from a state weakened by years of economic decline and dominated by competing powerful actors into an authoritarian regime with imperial aspirations and global reach. Yet headlines seldom tell the whole story. Who is Vladimir Putin and what does the political system he presides over – often called the
power vertical
– consist of? What explains the electoral dominance of United Russia? Why are there massive but rare protests in Russia? What role does masculinity play in public politics in Russia? What motivated and what was gained by the annexation of the Crimea? This class will answer these questions and others by examining issues relevant to contemporary Russian politics. Students will begin with an overview of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the painful transition of the 1990s. Students will then examine Russia’s current political regime as well as the political career of Vladimir Putin. The course will devote significant time to the topic of elections, protest and civil society in Russia before concluding with a look at Russia’s foreign policy ambitions.

• Department: Political Science
• 3 points

SUBCITIZENSHIP

The class will survey the status of groups with compromised citizenship status internationally, including indigenous Bolivians, Indian immigrants to Dubai, and Arabs in France. Then we will look at several different kinds of subcitizenship in the United States, focusing on African Americans, Native Americans, “white trash,” and Chicanos. In the course of the term we will shift between looking at the administrative practices that render people subcitizens, experiences of marginalization, and how contestations such as the DREAM Act movement, the idea of “cultural citizenship” and newly powerful indigenous movements in South America are removing control of citizenship from states, and transforming citizenship for everyone.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart Rockefeller
  Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor
within
the University. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree.  Instructor permission required.  Web site:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3-6 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor
outside
the University within the New York City Metropolitan Area unless otherwise approved by the Program. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree. Instructor permission required. Web site:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3-6 points

ADVANCED VIDEO

Prerequisites: (VIAR UN3500)
VIAR UN3500
Beginning Video or prior experience in video or film production.
Advanced Video is an advanced, intensive project-based class on the production of digital video. The class is designed for advanced students to develop an ambitious project or series of projects during the course of the semester. Through this production, students will fine-tune shooting and editing skills as well as become more sophisticated in terms of their aesthetic and theoretical approach to the moving image. The class will follow each student through proposal, dailies, rough-cut and fine cut stage. The course is organized for knowledge to be shared and accumulated, so that each student will learn both from her/his own process, as well as the processes of all the other students. Additional screenings and readings will be organized around the history of video art and the problematics of the moving image in general, as well as particular issues that are raised by individual student projects. NOTE: There is only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS II

Prerequisites:
MDES W4501
or the instructor's permission. Students must have a good familiarity with the Hebrew verb system, and the ability to read a text without vowels.
This course focuses on central identities shaping Israeli society and is designed to give students extensive experience in reading Hebrew. Through selected readings of contemporary literary works and media texts, students will increase their proficiency in Hebrew and enhance their understanding of Israeli culture and society. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

YEATS, ELIOT, AUDEN

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
Introduction to monetary problems in international trade. Topics include macroeconomics of the open economy under fixed and flexible exchange rates, international adjustment under the gold standard, monetary problems of the interwar period, the Breton Woods agreement, transition to flexible exchange rates, planned reforms of the international monetary system and the Eurocurrency markets.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ ARRANGING & COMPOSITION

JAZZ ARRANGING&TRANSCRIPTION;

Prerequisites:
V2318-19
Diatonic Harmony or equivalent.
Course designed to train students to arrange and compose in a variety of historical jazz styles, including swing, bebop, hard bop, modal, fusion, Latin, and free jazz.

• Department: Music
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ole Mathisen
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• 3 points

GENDER JUSTICE

Gender Justice

This course will provide an introduction to the concrete legal contexts in which issues of gender and justice have been articulated, disputed and hesitatingly, if not provisionally, resolved. Readings will cover issues such as Workplace Equality, Sexual Harassment, Sex Role Stereotyping, Work/Family Conflict, Marriage and Alternatives to Marriage, Compulsory Masculinity, Parenting, Domestic Violence, Reproduction and Pregnancy, Rape, Sex Work & Trafficking. Through these readings we will explore the multiple ways in which the law has contended with sexual difference, gender-based stereotypes, and the meaning of equality in domestic, transnational and international contexts. So too, we will discuss how feminist theorists have thought about sex, gender and sexuality in understanding and critiquing our legal system and its norms.For more information, go to:
http://web.law.columbia.edu/gender-sexuality/faculty/katherine-franke/gender-justice
.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Franke
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• 3 points

PROBLEMS IN INT'L HISTORY

The general object of this course is to illuminate how histories of the realm we think of as "international" are structured by means of key concepts, foundational concepts that form semantic fields of politics and policy. The seminar this year will be devoted, specifically, to a series of 'basic documents' of the early cold war, primary sources, chiefly U.S., which will be examined by means of close readings. The design is thus unusual in that there will be only a single book, Melvyn Leffler’s
Preponderance of Power
, which provides a survey of the Truman Administration and so will be a reference text for the US side, at least. The remaining materials will be available in Courseworks.

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anders G Stephanson
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

GENOMICS OF GENE REGULATION

Prerequisites: one year of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Courses taken at CU are recommended, but AP courses may be sufficient with the instructor's permission.
This course will provide students with a quantitative understanding of the ways in which molecular interactions between nucleotides and proteins give rise to the behavior of gene regulatory networks. The key high-throughput genomics technologies for probing the cell at different levels using microarrays and next-generation sequencing will be discussed. Strategies for interpreting and integrating these data using statistics, biophysics, and genetics will be introduced. In computer exercises, student will learn the basics of the R language, and use it to perform analyses of genomics data sets. No prior computer programming experience is assumed. This highly interdisciplinary course is intended for advanced undergraduates as well as beginning graduate students in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science. Offered in previous years as CHBC W4510.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 2:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Harmen Bussemaker
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 4 points

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4004) or (IEOR E3608)
Management of complex project and the tools that are available to assist managers with such projects. Topics include project selection, project teams and organizational issues, project monitoring and control, project risk management, project resource management, and managing multiple projects.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Moshe Rosenwein
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• 3 points

CONDUCTING MUSIC

Prerequisites: advanced music major and extensive contemporary music background.
Analysis of the modern repertory of contemporary music with directional emphasis on actual conducting preparation, beating patterns, rhythmic notational problems, irregular meters, communication, and transference of musical ideas. Topics will include theoretical writing on 20th-century conducting, orchestration, and phrasing.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Milarsky
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRY PROJECTS ANALYTICS

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• 3 points

FOOD SEX PREMOD CHIN BUDDHISM

This course is an upper-level seminar on appetite and its management, designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Our focus will be on the appetites of food hunger and sexual desire, and how Chinese Buddhist teachings propose to manage these. Food and sex are separate domains of experience, but as the primary objects of bodily appetites, they are analogous. Eating and sex both involve a direct and substantive interaction with the material world that is driven by powerful desires. In Buddhist teachings, these desires are said to bind us to the cycle of rebirth (
saṃs
ā
ra
) and to shape the actions (karma), both mental and corporeal, that constitute our moral engagement with the phenomenal world. Hence it is important to know how a Buddhist on the path out of suffering is to manage these activities. What do monastic codes stipulate? What disciplines did lay Buddhists undertake? How are transgressions identified and handled? How do ancient Chinese and Daoist ideas inform the development of Chinese Buddhist attitudes toward sex and diet? How did Chinese Buddhist monastics come to adopt a meatless diet? How do religions use food and sex as tools for determining one's ritual purity (i.e., moral worth)? We will explore these and related topics. Despite the common perception of Buddhism as a world-denying religion focused on transcending bodily needs, Chinese Buddhists (and their Indian or Central Asian counterparts) engaged in numerous body practices with worldly benefit, while at the same time mitigating the dangers of desire through various doctrinal and practical means. This course is an exploration of those means.

• Department: Religion
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robban A Toleno
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: ENME E3161 and MSAE E3111 or the equivalent
Introduction to engineering processes involving particulates and powders.  The fundamentals of particle characterization, multiphase flow behavior, particle formation, processing and utilization of particles in various engineering applications with examples in energy and environment related technologies.  Engineering of functionalized particles and design of multiphase reactors and processing units with emphasis on fluidization technology. Particle technology is an interdisciplinary field.  Due to the complexity of particulate systems, particle technology is often treated as art than science.  in this course, the fundamental principles governing the key aspects of particle science and technology will be introduced along with various industrial examples.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• 3 points

LAUNCHING NEW VENTURES

LAUNCH YOUR STARTUP:TECH

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Owen E Davis
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• 3 points

OPERATIONS RES METHODS MARKETING

OR METHODS IN MARKETING

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Khosrow Dehnad
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1.5 points

FOUND OF NANOBIOSCI/NANOBIOTECH

Prerequisites: (BIOL UN2005) and (BIOL UN2006) and (BMEN E4001) or (BMEN E4002) instructor permission
Fundamentals of nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, scientific foundations, engineering principles, current and envisioned applications. This includes the discussion of intermolecular forces and bonding, of the kinetics and thermodynamics of self-assembly, of nanoscale transport processes arising from the actions of biomolecular motors, computation and control in biomolecular systems, and of the mitochondrium as an example of a nanoscale factory.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

THE CRAFT OF IVORY

Studying the art of ivory in the Middle Ages provides art historians with the wide spectrum about the history of styles and craftsmanship. The relatively huge amount of the surviving material enables us to tell a relatively coherent story about the production of this material. In the focus of this seminar are the products of the so-called medieval Islamic ivories, mainly those produced in the Arab Mediterranean and the Levant. These artifacts are usually datable between the 7
th
and the 14
th
centuries. The discussions in the class will concentrate on carved, incised, painted, and wood and ivory intarsia objects as well as on issues concerning trade, availability, meanings, iconographies, patronage, ownerships, as well as the relationship of this material to other substances, such as wood, textiles, metal and precious stones.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Avinoam Shalem
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BIOMEMS:CELL/MOLECULAR APPLIC

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) and (BIOL UN2005) and (BIOL UN2006) and (CHEM UN3443) or (CHEM UN2545) or or equivalent. Chemistry.
Topics include biomicroelectromechanical, microfluidic, and lab-on-a-chip systems in biomedical engineering, with a focus on cellular and molecular applications. Microfabrication techniques, biocompatibility, miniaturization of analytical and diagnostic devices, high-throughput cellular studies, microfabrication for tissue engineering, and in vivo devices.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) or CHEN E3120 or instructor's permission.
       Atmospheric aerosols and their effects on atmospheric composition and climate.  Major topics are aerosol sources and properties, field and laboratory techniques for characterization, gas-aerosol interactions, secondary organic aerosols, aerosol direct and indirect effects on climate.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: V. Faye McNeill
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

CONCEPTS IN VIAR: PERFORMANCE

CONCEPTS IN VA: PERFORMANCE

(Formerly R3006) This course explores strategies in the production of performance art, using the signifying system of the body as a conceptual framework for a series of workshops that give students tools to develop their own performance projects over the course of the semester. Students will engage with discourses of performance, from theatrical and choreographic models to social and relational practices, and become familiar with strategies for constructing and determining the role of the audience.  With attention to site- and situation-specificity, this course offers instruction in a variety of technical aspects of performance, such as the use of body, architecture, sound, light, costume, prop, sculpture, video, and methods of collaboration. The class includes group critique of performances presented in class, as well as the opportunity to workshop developing works with the support of the group. Students will become familiar with venues for performance, and the artists who are redefining performance in the art world today. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liz Laser
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• 3 points

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (EEME E3601) or (ELEN E3201)
Real-time control using digital computers. Solving scalar and state-space difference equations. Discrete equivalents of continuous systems fed by holds. Z-transer functions. Creating closed-loop difference equation models by Z-transform and state variable approaches. The Nyquist frequency and sample rate selection. Classical and modern based digital control laws. Digital system identification.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

EARLY CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

This course is an introductory survey of early Caribbean Literature. Focusing primarily on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Anglophone Caribbean, we will ask what the region signified for writers across the Atlantic world and how it shaped natural and political spaces in that world. Given that the Caribbean was a rapidly shifting zone of economic, linguistic, racial, and class interests, we will consider the various ways that we might narrate a literary history of the region— either distinct from or conjoined with familiar histories of England and the United States. While working toward this goal, we will be conscious of the national, generic, and temporal frameworks that have traditionally shaped literature departments, and ask how our texts resist or reaffirm those frameworks. How and to what degree, we will ask, does the Caribbean disrupt our modes of literary analysis?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Cristobal J Silva
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

POLITICS IN INDIA

This course will combine study of long-term historical sociology with more short term understanding of policies and their possible effects. Though its main purpose will be to provide students with an understanding of politics after independence, it will argue, methodologically, that this understanding should be based on a study of historical sociology – plotting long-terms shifts in the structure of social power.  The course will start with analyses of the structures of power and ideas about political legitimacy in pre-modern India, and the transformations brought by colonialism into that order. After a brief study of the nature of political order under the colonial state, the courses will focus primarily on the history of the democratic state after independence.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sudipta Kaviraj
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• 4 points

RABBIS FOR HISTORIANS

This course introduces the central historical issues raised by ancient Palestinian and Babylonian rabbinic literature through exploration of some of the crucial primary texts and analysis of the main scholarly approaches to these texts.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN HINDI LIT II

Prerequisites:
MDES UN2602
or the instructor's permission.
In this course students become familiar with major Hindi genres and texts from c. 1900 to the present.  Students develop their skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening, as well as working with advanced grammar topics and learning new idioms. Prerequisite: two years of Hindi-Urdu or permission of the instructor.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Busch
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

THE 1960s

This course is devoted to “literature of the 1960s,” in both senses of the phrase: in the semester ahead, we will study authors who wrote during and about that most tumultuous of decades. We will approach the period thematically, reading texts that address distinct historical topics from week to week (the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, drugs, environmentalism, and so on). We will also take a broad view of what constitutes the “literature of the 1960s,” reading works in familiar literary genres like poetry, drama, and the novel, but additionally making time for essays, journalism, and songs.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin Graham
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

TECHNOLOGY,RELIGION,FUTURE

This seminar will examine the history of the impact of technology and media on religion and vice versa before bringing into focus the main event: religion today and in the future. We'll read the classics as well as review current writing, video and other media, bringing thinkers such as Eliade, McLuhan, Mumford and Weber into dialogue with the current writing of Kurzweil, Lanier and Taylor, and look at, among other things: ethics in a Virtual World; the relationship between Burning Man, a potential new religion, and technology; the relevance of God and The Rapture in Kurzweil's Singularity; and what will become of karma when carbon-based persons merge with silicon-based entities and other advanced technologies.

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

INTRO-POLYMERS/SOFT MATERIALS

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE II

(Lecture). This survey of African American literature focuses on language, history, and culture. What are the contours of African American literary history? How do race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect within the politics of African American culture? What can we expect to learn from these literary works? Why does our literature matter to student of social change? This lecture course will attempt to provide answers to these questions, as we begin with Zora Neale Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(1937) and Richard Wright's
Native Son
(1940) and end with Melvin Dixon's
Love's Instruments
(1995) with many stops along the way. We will discuss poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fictional prose. Ohter authors include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Malcom X, Ntzozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. There are no prerequisites for this course. The formal assignments are two five-page essays and a final examination. Class participation will be graded.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

READING (IN THEORY)

FREUD AND DERRIDA

This reading-intensive course will engage, over time with essential texts of the current critical canon. Offered over a series of semesters, it is aimed at developing a practice of reading: close or distant, and always attentive. Let us say: slow reading. What does it mean to read? Where and when does reading start? Where does it founder? What does reading this author (Freud, for example) or that author (say, Foucault) do to the practice of reading? Can we read without misreading? Can we read for content or information without missing the essential? Is there such a thing as essential reading? Favoring a demanding and strenuous exposure to the text at hand, this course promises just that: a demanding and strenuous exposure to reading.
The course can be repeated for credit.

• Department: Religion
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

ASSET ALLOCATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700)
Models for pricing and hedging equity, fixed-income, credit-derivative securities, standard tools for hedging and risk management, models and theoretical foundations for pricing equity options (standard European, American equity options, Asian options), standard Black-Scholes model (with multiasset extension), asset allocation, portfolio optimization, investments over longtime horizons, and pricing of fixed-income derivatives (Ho-Lee, Black-Derman-Toy, Heath-Jarrow-Morton interest rate model).

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Miquel Noguer Alonso
  Info
• 3 points

RECORDED SOUND

Prerequisites: The instructor's permission.
As music moves into the 21
st
century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility.  What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer?   With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own.   But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well?  How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts?  How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style?
This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer.  It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.

• Department: Music
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario Diaz de Leon
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INDO-TIBETAN BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

Examination of topics in the religious philosophy of Tibet.

• Department: Religion
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

READINGS IN URDU LIT II

Prerequisites: two years of prior coursework in Hindi-Urdu (
MDES W1612
&
MDES W1613
), one year of Urdu for Heritage Speakers (
MDES W1614 & MDES W1615
), or the instructor's permission.
This course is a literary course, with in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu prose and poetry. In the fall semester, our focus will be on some of the most famous Urdu short stories while, in the spring semester, we will focus on various genres of Urdu poetry. The content may change each semester. This course is open to both undergraduates and graduates. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

CINEMA&COLONIALISM; IN SOUTH ASIA

What is the relation between cinema and colonialism? This seminar approaches cinema as a dynamic historical agent that aided, negotiated, refracted, and contested the mechanisms and meanings of colonialism in South Asia. We will study cinema as technology, as industry, and as cultural form, paying attention to questions of film finance, on-screen representation, production infrastructures, circuits of distribution, and sites of exhibition. We will watch films made by British ethnographers, Indian expats, Hollywood orientalists, and South Asian nationalists to
study how film served as a key weapon of imperial propaganda as well as anticolonial resistance. From orientalist films that constructed the colony as exotic and dangerous, to the spatial uses of Indian films to reinforce race inequalities in the diaspora (eg. East Africa), cinema is deeply imbricated with colonial strategies of racial, gendered, and caste-based othering. This is a history of cinema as a history of empire; where cinema is not just a text to be read but a cultural, industrial, and social network of power relations.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Debashree Mukherjee
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

BEYOND BEAUTY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
  Info
• 3 points

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION FOR ENG

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION ELCT ENG

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) or instructor permission.
Theory of convex optimization; numerical algorithms; applications in circuits, communications, control, signal processing and power systems.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Chong Li
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL FACTORS & PSYCHOPATHLGY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Reviews and integrates current research on the role of social factors in psychopathology. The immediate and long-term effects of chronic and traumatic stressors originating outside the family (e.g., natural disasters, chronic poverty) and inside the family (e.g., family violence, divorce, parental psychopathology) on psychopathology.

• Department: Psychology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended.
Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO IGNEOUS PETROLOGY

Prerequisites: introductory geology or the equivalent. Recommended preparation: EESC W4113 and knowledge of chemistry.
Compositional characteristics of igneous and metamorphic rocks and how they can be used as tools to investigate earth processes. Development of igneous and metamorphic rocks in a plate-tectonic framework.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Terry A Plank
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

STAT INFERENCE & MODELING

STATISTICAL INFERENCE & MODEL

Prerequisites: A course in computer programming.
This course is covers the following topics: fundamentals of data visualization, layered grammer of graphics, perception of discrete and continuous variables, intreoduction to Mondran, mosaic pots, parallel coordinate plots, introduction to ggobi, linked pots, brushing, dynamic graphics, model visualization, clustering and classification.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joyce T Robbins
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

PHOTO III SEMINAR

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1700
.
(Formerly R4710) The photo book as a central medium of contemporary photographic practice is explored in this course. Students are exposed to a variety of approaches and viewpoints through presentations by guest photographers, curators, critics, editors, graphic designers, etc... Students will cooperatively shoot 8mm movie films to explore issues of narrative and timing. Each student will propose, develop, and produce a maquette of their work as a final project. Note: Due to the necessity of placing a cap on the number of students who can register for our photography courses, the department provides a wait list to identify and give priority to students interested in openings that become available on the first day of class. If the class is full, sign up for the wait list at 
http://arts.columbia.edu/photolist
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Roma
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructor's permission.
Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Collins
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ENGINEERING II

FE: CONTINUOUS TIME MODELS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701)

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
Modeling, analysis, and computation of derivative securities. Application of stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations. Numerical techniques: finite-difference, binomial method, and Monte Carlo.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

DATA ANALYSIS FOR FIN ENGIN

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS & TIME SE

Prerequisites: Probability.
Corequisites: IEOR E4706,IEOR E4702

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
 Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, nonlinear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL DATA

Prerequisites:
POLS W4710
or the equivalent.
Multivariate and time-series analysis of political data. Topics include time-series regression, structural equation models, factor analysis, and other special topics. Computer applications are emphasized.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lindeman
  Info
• 4 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICL DATA-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICL DATA-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICL DATA-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICL DATA-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

DEEP LEARNING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700) and additional prerequisites will be announced depending on offering.
Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATA SCI

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hsu
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY & POLIT THEORY

Prerequisites: POLS W4760 or equivalent level of calculus.
Application of noncooperative game theory to strategic situations in politics. Solution concepts, asymmetric information, incomplete information, signaling, repeated games, and folk theorems. Models drawn from elections, legislative strategy, interest group politics, regulation, nuclear deterrence, international relations, and tariff policy.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: John Huber
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY & POL THEORY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

GAME THEORY & POL THEORY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points